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I think the two disorders are very different as well so until I read this study I had no idea that bipolar was the label being slapped on people who were really BPD. I think Bipolar disorder is the soup du jour now. Its seems everytime there is some celeb having a meltdown all the gossip mags theorize that is must be bipolar. And there are a ton of jerks who think moodiness must mean they are bipolar and offensively say "I am so up and down today. I'm like bipolar or something". I do think in more cases though there are a lot of misdiagnosis. I think that some doctors care more about rubber stamping their "expertise" and "solving" a patient's mystery and do not dig far enough to be thorough with their diagnostic process. I think the misdiagnosis is in a way more damaging than general overdiagnosis because then you go treating a different disorder using bipolar treatment options so a patient stalls in their recovery.
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